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^ I ^HE  great  black  blot  in  religious  Japan  represents 
the  proportion  of  non-Christians.  Compare  with 
this  the  relative  few  who  have  heard  the  word  of  God 
and  are  inquirers,  denoted  by  the  gray  area.  Japan’s 
Christians  are  few,  but  their  number  is  a hopeful  ray 
ol  white  light,  just  as  they  are  represented  here. 

The  area  of  Japan  is  148,756  square  miles,  and  we 
have  only  about  100  religious  workers  there. 


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AyTORE  than  half  of  Japanese  commerce  is  modern. 

That  is  represented  by  the  clear  white  area.  A 
small  portion  of  her  business  is  still  conducted  accord- 
ing to  the  methods  of  the  Dark  Ages.  But  an  encour- 
aging amount,  which  was  antiquated,  is  changing  with 
the  light  of  modern  influence. 

The  value  of  the  mineral  and  metal  products  of  Japan 
for  1916  was  281,305,276  yen  (1140,652,638). 


^VER  ninety-five  per  cent,  of  Japan’s  children 
are  in  schools.  Most  of  them  are  very  fine 
schools.  Only  a small  part  of  the  entire  educational 
system  is  behind  the  times,  and  a very  few  districts 


/^NLY  half  the  industries  of  Japan  are  conducted 
according  to  the  standards  we  call  modern.  A 
fourth  of  her  industrial  plants  use  old  wasteful  methods, 
wasteful  of  material  and  of  human  beings.  The 
remaining  fourth  of  the  nation’s  industries,  shown  by  the 
gray  space,  are  just  beginning  to  adopt  modern  ways. 

Japan’s  exports  in  1913  were  worth  729,431,644 
yen  (1364,715,822). 


Why  we  are 


The  Methodist  Church  is  in  Japan  because  the 
Empire  is  in  need  of  the  religious  and  spiritual 
help  which  the  Christian  Church  can  give.  The 
Church  is  pledged  to  do  its  utmost  in  spreading  to 
the  four  corners  of  the  globe  the  Word  of  God. 

Japan  is  the  keystone  of  the  arch  that  is  slowly  but 
surely  raising  itself  in  the  far  East.  Her  influence 
in  Korea  (now  a part  of  the  Empire),  China  and  the 
rest  of  Asia  is  tremendous.  She  holds  the  reins  among 
the  Asiatic  peoples,  all  of  whom  are  non-Christian.  As 
Japan  goes,  so  will  go  China  during  the  next  century. 
It  is  imperative  then  that  Methodism  relax  not  a whit, 
but  rather  increase  her  efforts  to  spread  the  gospel 
in  Japan. 

Japan  is  a member  of  the  Entente  Allies.  She  has 
functioned  smoothly  and  loyally  during  the  trying 
times  since  she  declared  war  on  the  Mad  Dog  of 
Europe.  Japan  will  have  a seat  at  the  Peace  Table  in 
the  Conference  of  Powers.  More  than  that,  Japan  will 
play  an  active  part  in  the  League  of  Nations  which  still 
later  will  control  the  political  and  industrial  conduct  of 
the  world.  Japan  can  cooperate  more  efficiently  with 


in  Japan 


her  Allies  when  their  ideals  shall  have  become  hers, 
when  their  religion  shall  have  become  hers.  When 
Japan  accepts  Christ,  and  not  until  then,  will  she  view 
World  Problems  in  the  right  way.  Not  until  then  will 
she  wield  her  greatest  power  at  the  council  table  of 
the  nations.  This  challenge  to  Methodism  is  direct 
and  compelling. 

Japan  and  America  are  friends  at  opposite  ends  of 
the  earth.  America  dominates  the  Western  World, 
Japan  the  Eastern.  America  enjoys  the  true  religion 
under  which  the  highest  known  development  of  civili- 
zation has  been  reached.  The  soul  of  Japan  has  not 
yet  been  touched  by  the  truths  of  Christianity.  It  is 
necessary  to  the  consistent  progress  of  the  human  race 
that  the  hearts  of  these  two  great  powers  beat  in 
harmony.  Japan  must  better  understand  America  and 
America,  Japan.  The  wider  introduction  of  Christ  in 
the  Island  Empire  is  the  way  in  which  this  great  accom- 
plishment can  be  brought  about  and  the  only  way. 
The  resulting  better  understanding  between  the  two 
peoples  will  make  for  better  friendship  and  better  friend- 
ship will  make  for  better  World  Conditions. 


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Most  of  us  picture  Japan 
as  a land  of  gardens,  tea 
‘ houses  and  perfumes. 
It  is  also  a land  of  crowds, 
movies  and  smells. 

Automobile  horns  scream  at 
jogging  rickshaws.  Messen- 
ger-boys and  workmen  with 
bags  of  tools  bowl  along  on 
bicycles. 


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d in  all  save  its  Religion 


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JAPAN  has  an  electric  trolley 
system  that  would  make  any 
tired  business  man  feel  at  home. 
One  writer  notes  that  pretty  girls 
there,  as  everywhere,  always  get  a seat. 

Japan  achieved  government  owner- 
ship of  her  6,000  miles  of  railroads 
in  1904. 

In  the  Flowery  Kingdom  are  six 
daily  newspapers  which  have  a circu- 
lation of  over  200,000  each.  And  the 
greatest  of  these  is  the  Morning  Sun. 

The  air  of  dreamy  Japan  is  a-ring 
with  the  ship  carpenter’s  hammer. 
Our  new  merchant  marine  will  meet 
the  Rising  Sun  flag  on  every  sea. 

Japan  has  adopted  all  the  trappings 
of  modern  life.  We  even  read  of 
public  scandals  about  bribery  accept- 
ed by  members  of  the  Lower  House 
to  insure  the  passage  of  an  army  bill! 

And  Japanese  Boy  Scouts  yell, 
“Let’s  get  the  umpire’s  goat!” 


Rival 


AMONG  the  most  powerful  religions  in  the  world, 
Buddhism  is  second  only  to  Christianity.  In 
the  East,  the  Buddhist  temple  is  the  strongest  rival 

of  the  Christian  Church. 
5 Buddhism  is  atheism. 

Buddhists  have  no  con- 
ception of  a Creator. 
Who  made  the  Creator?’ 
they  ask  with  an  air  of 
finality.  To  them  exist- 
ence is  evolution  through 
various  gradations  of 
heaven  and  hell. 


Forces 


The  passage  from  one  phase  to  the  next  is  con- 
trolled, not  by  a gracious  Supreme  Being,  but  by  an 
immutable  law  of  cause  and  effect.  There  is  no  atone- 
ment for  sin,  no  redemption  through  a Savior. 

Buddhists  look  forward,  not  to  eternal  life,  but  to 
“Nirvana”-freedom  from  all  existence,  annihilation. 

Pessimism  is  the  key-note  of  Buddhism.  All 
existence  is  held  to  be  futile,  evil,  worthless. 
Devotees  learn  to  crush  all  impulses,  and  so  the 
religion  encourages  stagnation.  How  different 
from  our  living  faith  that  inspires  progress ! 


No  God  and  8 


Fifteen  hundred  years  ago  Buddhism  came  into  Japan 
from  China  by  way  of  Korea.  Today  the  religion  has  decayed 
until  only  the  ornate  trappings,  such  as  this  traveling  shrine, 
remain.  The  temples  of  Buddha  are  as  full  of  ritual  and  ceremony, 
candles  and  incense,  images  and  processions  as  are  the  cathedrals 
of  Rome.  There  are  prayer-wheels  to  get  blessings  for  the  dead. 
Mothers  put  pebbles  on  Jizo  Sama  to  insure  for  their  children  an 

easy  journey  after  death.  Poor 
benighted  sufferers  go  through  the 
act  of  rubbing  the  stomach  of  an 
image  and  then  rubbing  their  own 
to  cure  the  pain. 


HINTO,  the  first  primitive  religion  of  Japan,  is  well  called 
“the  god  way.  For  its  gods  and  goddesses  number  eight  million. 
Shinto  is  nature-worship  and  ancestor-worship,  and  so  there 
are  gods  of  land,  wind  and  sky,  as  well  as  deified  grandfathers, 
generals  and  rulers.  Simple  shrines  nestle  in  every  grove  and  valley- 
Spirits  are  believed  to  inhabit  the  shrines.  There  are  offerings  of 
rice,  fish  and  vegetables,  and  frequently  the  sacrifice  of  animals. 

Shinto  has  no  sacred  literature,  no  ethical  code.  One  has  merely 
to  obey  the  Mikado,  who  is  a god,  and  one’s  own  impulses. 
Shinto  is  the  religion  of  the  majority 
of  the  upper  classes.  To  the 
Japanese,  patriotism  is  religion 
and  that  religion  is  Shinto.  So 
the  faith  survives  in  an  intense 
national  feeling. 


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Educational 


Wonderful^  efficient  government  scho 


98%  of  school-age  children  are 
in  regular  attendance.  Japan 
has  one  of  the  finest  public- 
school  systems  in  the  world 


Education  Plus  O 


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We  need  many  more 
schools  like  this  if  we  hope 
to  keep  pace  with  the  need 


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What  our  Educational  Ca 


A FEW  of  the  traveled  people  of  Japan  awoke,  some  years  ago, 
to  the  fact  that  the  position  of  women  in  their  cherry-blossom 
Lland  was  a degraded  one.  But  comparatively  few  people 
traveled.  So  the  awakening  was  a slow  process. 

And  then — as  the  fairy  story  says — and  then  came  the  mission  schools.  Young 
boys  and  girls  trained  in  the  healthy  atmosphere  of  our  educational  institutions, 
under  the  guidance  of  Christian  teachers,  began  to  see  the  weaknesses  of  Japan’s  social 
structure.  This  new  generation  looks  now  upon  social  and  moral  problems  with  level 
eyes,  made  level  by  their  view  of  Western  culture  through  the  clear  glass  of  Christianity. 
The  girl  graduates  step  back  into  their  family  circles  with  a higher  home  ideal. 
And  when  we  count  our  graduates  among  the  officials  in  the  high  places  of  use- 
fulness in  public  affairs,  and  think  that  we  have  moulded  the  characters  of  these 
leaders,  then  we  can  honestly  feel  that  our  work  has  not  been  in  vain. 


mpaign  has  accomplished 


What  our  Religious  Cain 


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ISHIZAWA,  Ph.l). 
Dean  of 

Aoyama  Gakuin 


C^T  to  her  own  devices,  Japan  adopted 
the  mechanics  of  Western  civiliza- 
tion, and  stopped  short  at  that.  It 
is  Christianity  that  gives  the  spiritual 
stimulus  which  lifts  the  nation  out  of 
the  mire  of  commercialism. 

It  is  the  work  of  the  Church  to 
teach  the  Oriental  peoples  how  to  be 
civilized  without  being  sorry.  They 
look  to  us  for  guidance,  for  democratic 
institutions  founded  on  liberal  education 
and  sound  character.  The  new  mis- 
sionary goes  forth  prepared  to  interpret 


JAPAN’S  “BILLY  SUNDAY” 
And  a typical  audience 


our  industrial  experiences,  our  labor  problems, 
our  New  Testament  standards  of  living  to  the 
nations,  like  Japan,  who  are  just  entering  their 
Machine  Age. 

Our  success  in  Japan  has  inspired  recent 
revivals  in  Buddhist  circles.  Shinto,  the  native 
religion  of  the  Empire,  rallies  with  the  wave  of 
patriotism.  But  even  with  this  opposition, 
which  grows  as  we  grow,  our  religious  campaign 
prospers. 

Eager  crowds  fill  the  churches  and  chapels 
to  hear  such  men  as  Kimura  “Billy  Sunday”  or 
Paul  Kanamori,  until  there  is  need  to  adopt  the 
“Standing  Room  Only”  sign.  As  a result  of 
country-wide  evangelistic  campaigns,  thousands 
of  intelligent  inquirers  enroll,  thus  signifying 
their  thirst  for  knowledge  of  the  gospel. 


The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  has  in  Japan 
two  schools  and  one  publishing  house,  with 
a total  property  valuation  of  $270,000. 

Together  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
South  and  the  Canadian  Methodist  Church,  we 
cooperate  with  the  Japanese  Methodist  Church. 
In  1917,  the  subsidy  received  from  the  three 
Mission  Boards  was  $15,900. 

Japan’s  Methodist  Church  has  a total  of  15,466 
communicants. 

There  are  384  Japanese  workers,  of  whom  134 
are  ordained. 

The  Methodist  Church  in  Japan  has  a total  of 
133  churches,  29  of  which  are  self-supporting. 

There  are  168  organized  preaching  places. 

In  the  Methodist  Sunday-schools  are  enrolled 
35,802. 


OurProposals  fortheHilure 


The  Influence  of  Meth 


Rich  man,  poor  man,  beggar 
man,  chief,  — they  all  find  in 
Christianity  a something  that 
enriches  their  lives  a hundredfold. 
The  men  pictured  here  are  figures  big 
in  financial,  political,  educational  and 
ecclesiastical  circles  of  Japan.  Guided 
by  the  influence  of  such 
men,  the  Empire  is  strug- 
gling up  out  of  the  slough 
of  paganism  onto  the 
firm  ground  which  is 
Christendom. 


VISCOUNT 
SUTEMI  CHINDA 


has  been  consul,  min- 
ister, or  ambassador 
to  the  four  corners  of 
the  globe.  He  says: 
“The  Christian  mis- 
sionaries to  Japan 
contributed  to  the 
building  of  an  unseen 
bridge  between  East 
and  West.” 


GINJIRE  KATSUDA 

is  a rising  business  man  and  million- 
aire. He  has  contributed  generously 
to  his  alma  mater,  .-Toyama  Gakuin, 
the  most  recent  gift  being  a sum  of 
200,000  yen  ($100,000  gold). 


SHOSUKE  SATO 


is  an  educator  of  the  highest  rank. 
He  was  a fellow  student  of  President 
Wilson  at  Johns  Hopkins  University. 
He  is  now  Dean  of  the  Agricultural 
College  of  the  Imperial  Northern 
University. 


BISHOP 

YOSHISHU 

HARAIWA 

was  teaching  in  the 
Government  schools 
when  he  became  con- 
verted. He  at  once 
became  a minister. 
In  1912  he  succeeded 
Bishop  Honda  as 
head  of  the  Japanese 
Methodist  Church. 


YOITSU  HONDA 

was  one  of  the  earliest  Japanese 
Christians.  He  was  a noted  leader 
of  Christian  forces  in  the  Empire.  In 
1907,  when  the  Methodist  Churches 
of  Japan  united,  Yoitsu  Honda  was 
elected  Bishop. 


TARO  ANDO 

W'hileTaro  Ando  was  Consul-General 
at  Honolulu,  he  was  converted  to 
Christianity.  He  returned  to  Japan 
a fervent  believer  in  its  doctrines. 
He  is  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  modern 
temperance  movement  in  Japan. 


Her  soldiers  stand  shoulder  to 
shoulder  with  ours.  That  in 
itself  proves  that  the  chasm 
which  used  to  yawn  between  East  and 
West  is  not  impassable.  The  gulf  is 
not  racial,  but  existed  because  of 
ignorance  and  a difference  in  ideas  and 
ideals.  But  with  education 
and  Christianity  comes  a 
community  of  ideas  and 
ideals  which  bridges  the  old 
chasm ! East  and  West  now 
stand  side  by  side  in  every 
fight  for  Right. 


Factory  Conditions  C 


A T least  20,000  mills  and  factories  dull  the 
skies  of  the  Sunrise  Kingdom  with  their 
j^smoke.  More  than  a million  men,  women 
and  children  grind  out  their  lives  toiling  long  hours 
in  unhealthy  workrooms  for  starvation  wages.  In  silk 
and  weaving  factories,  the  machine  hands  work  about 
twelve  hours  a day.  There  are  no  rest  periods,  and  the 
lunch  “hour”  is  reduced  to  the  minimum.  In  the  great  manu- 
facturing plants,  almost  no  preventive  measures  are  customary, 
and  the  accident  rate  in  the  iron  and  steel  industry  is  enormous. 

Many  factories  are  unclean  and  unventilated.  There  are  no  systems 
of  air-spraying  to  lay  the  germ-laden  dust.  A few  fine  exceptions 
are  apparent,  but  even  in  the  cleanest  buildings  a low  wage-scale  pre- 
vails and  immoral  relations  exist  between  foremen  and  women 
workers.  Houses  of  prostitution  are  filled  with  one-time  factory  girls. 


Many  factory  owners  maintain  dormitories  for  the  workers  where 
the  crowded  and  unsanitary  living  conditions  aid  in  the  spread  of 
disease.  Night  and  day  shifts  use  the  same  rooms  and  bedding. 

Of  the  thousands  of  recruits  from  rural  districts  to  the  big  manu- 
facturing centers,  60%  never  return  home.  Of  those  who  do,  one  out 
of  every  six  has  tuberculosis. 

There  are  no  I.  W.W.’s  in  Nippon. 

Japan’s  factory  law  is  tragic.  It  provides  that  little  children  shall 
not  work  before  four  in  the  morning,  nor  after  ten  at  night.  Another 
clause  states  that  women  shall  not  work  more  than  twelve  hours  a 
day,  except  in  unusual  circumstances. 

SAFETY  FIRST  signs  and  decent  wages,  clean  workrooms  and 
good  factory  laws  are  evidences  of  Christianity  in  business.  Japan  has 
adopted  all  the  machinery  of  modern  industry,  but  none  of  the  soul. 


hallenge  Christianity 


The  thinking  men  of  Japan  have  begun  to  realize  that  ill-paid  labor  is  not  cheap  labor;  that 
Japan’s  products  are  often  inferior  because  they  are  made  by  the  fumbling  fingers  of  worn-out 
girls.  And  Japan’s  leaders  would  welcome  any  help  from  our  Church.  In  factory  centers  where 
missions  and  other  Christian  agents  have  opened  decent  living  quarters  and  honest  employment 
agencies,  the  results  have  been  splendid.  Government  officials  and  heads  of  Big  Business  will  eagerly 
cooperate  with  the  plans  of  the  Church  to  improve  the  Empire’s  industrial  situation. 


What  we  propose  to  do 


JAPAN’S  gro  wth  has  been  like  that  of  the  rank 
vegetation  of  a tropical  rainy  season.  Warmed 
by  the  sudden  success  of  her  commercial  ventures, 
stimulated  by  the  influx  of  war  orders,  her  industries 
have  lifted  themselves  above  all  the  other  established 
institutions  of  the  country  until  they  dominate  the 
sky-line. 

But  the  growth  is  not  healthy.  It  is  inflated.  One- 
sided. The  other  phases  of  national  development  have 
not  kept  pace  with  it.  The  structure  lacks  strength. 
Lacks  the  strong  woody  fiber  that  will  keep  it  upright 
through  coming  seasons  of  storm.  Lacks  backbone. 
Christianity. 

Christianity  applied  to  industries  means  sane,  in- 
spiring leadership;  means  men  in  the  pinnacle  places 
who  have  broad  vision,  but  who  are  capable  of  seeing 


with  the  Centenaiy  Gift 

" ■ ■—  .... 


and  understanding  little  people.  Bread-and-butter 
Christianity  stands  for  fair  labor  laws,  enforced  by 
honest  and  humane  employers.  Decent,  wholesome 
living  conditions  for  the  many  workers  who  must  of 
necessity  live  in  close  groups  around  their  work. 

All  these  interpretations  of  what  religion  may  mean 
to  a nation  of  work-a-day  people  are  not  visionary 
theories.  They  are  possible  and  practical.  Present-day 
Japan  cannot  be  transformed  to  such  an  Elysian  state 
in  a night.  But  it  can  be  changed  in  a generation  or  two. 
By  training  up,  under  Christian  influence,  men  for  the 
pinnacle  places  in  the  state.  By  making  it  possible 
for  the  Church  to  have  a hand  in  the  character  for- 
mation of  the  future  industrial  leaders.  By  educating 
the  employers  and  workers  of  the  next  generation. 
That’s  what  we  propose  to  do  with  the  Centenary  gift. 


The  Great  War— c. 


UNTIL  America  declared  war,  in  April,  1917,  the 
conflict  in  Europe  was  just  a war— differing  from 
its  predecessors  only  in  size. 

When,  however.  President  Wilson  hurled  into  the  ring 
the  power  of  America,  war  as  the  world  then  knew  it 
became  a thing  of  the  past. 

We  were  engaged  in  a righteous  war,  one  in  which 
greed  and  national  aggrandizement  never  figured. 
Germany  was  but  a pawn  in  the  scheme  of  things  as 
laid  out  in  America’s  great  World  Emancipation  Plan. 

In  spots  the  world  is  an  unfit  place  in  which  to  live. 
Man  everywhere  must  be  made  to  recognize  man’s 
equality— his  right  to  come  and  go  and  do  as  he  pleases 
as  long  as  he  observes  the  common  laws  of  humanity. 
America  has  set  this  conscience  standard  for  the  world ! 
World  Betterment  is  the  new  cry  and  every  movement, 
everywhere,  which  aims  to  speed  this  attainment  will 
take  on  added  emphasis.  Weak  peoples,  little  peoples, 
far-away  peoples  and  oppressed  peoples  are  to  have  their 
day.  The  helm  of  the  world  is  held  firmly  in  the  hands 
of  WoodrowWilson,  chief  executive  of  a people  enjoying 
the  blessings  of  true  democracy. 

And  these  free  millions  through  their  able  helmsman, 
along  with  their  Allies,  have  decreed  that  the  Spirit  of 
Democracy  must  be  given  an  opportunity  to  take  root 


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wherever  the  need  exists.  The  world  must  be  made 
a better  place.  It  was  to  accomplish  that  purpose  that 
we  drew  the  sword.  And  that  we  shall  succeed  in  our 
crusade  we  are  feeding-  three-fifths  of  Europe,  relieving 
distress  and  suffering  in  France  and  Belgium  and  in  Asia 
Minor.  It  is  for  that  reason,  also,  that  the  Missionary 
program  for  the  world  must  go  on.  The  fester-spots  on 
the  family  of  nations  must  be  cured. 

The  Foreign  Missionary  Movement  of  the  Methodist 
Church  of  America  is  one  hundred  years  old ! The 
anniversary  comes  at  a critical  time  in  Church 
history.  Everywhere  people  are  raising  the  question, 
“Flas  Christianity  failed?”  Christianity  has  NOT  failed! 

It  was  the  Spirit  of  Christ  that  cried  out  to  Germany 
“STOP!” 

It  was  the  Spirit  of  Christ  that  compelled  the  Central 
Powers  to  laydown  their  arms  and  acknowledge  defeat! 

It  is  the  Spirit  of  Christ  that  will  bring  freedom- 
political,  economic  and  religious  freedom— to  all  the 
peoples  of  the  world! 

It  is  the  Spirit  of  Christ  that  will  fill  the  coffers  of 
the  Centenary  Missionary  chests  to  overflowing  that 
brotherly  love  and  peace  and  helpfulness  and  true 
democracy  may  be  spread  broadcast  throughout 
the  world. 


I want  to  go  to  your 


Christian 


School 


AM  one  of  more  than  seven  million  school-age 
children  in  far-away  Japan.  My  country 
gives  us  splendid  schools  and  looks  after  our 
health  and  safeguards  it  diligently. 

At  home  I am  well  cared  for  and  well  fed  and  sur- 
rounded with  beautiful  toys. 

But  I want  more. 

I want  to  learn  more,  ever  so  much  more,  about  your 
Jesus,  the  Man  who  loved  little  girls  like  me. 

I want  to  learn  about  the  great  love  He  had  for  every 
one,  and  of  how  He  died  to  give  us  life. 

I am  Just  a little  child,  and  only  today  did  I hear  of 
this  wonderful  Man  and  of  the  schools  where  His  life 
story  is  taught. 

I live  far,  far  away  from  them  and  my  father  will  not 
let  me  go.  It  is  the  foreigners’  school — that’s  the  name 
— the  Christian  foreigners. 

Their  nearest  school  is  fifty  miles  away  from  where  I 
live.  How  I wish  we  had  one  here!  I know  of  other  chil- 
dren who  would  gladly  join  me  in  going  to  such  a school. 

The  foreigner  who  told  us  about  Jesus  said  the  Jesus 
school  could  be  built  here  if  enough  money  could — 

How  much  will  ^u 


JOHN  R.  MOTT  says: 

The  marvelous  commercial  and  industrial  expansion  of  our  nation, 
and  the  penetration  of  the  lines  of  its  economic  and  social  and 
political  influence  among  the  nations  of  the  earth,  accentuate  the 
importance  of  having  a Church  like  ours  seek,  more  fully  than  it  has  ever 
dreamed  of  doing,  to  Christianize  the  impact  of  our  so-called  Christian 
civilization  upon  the  non-Christian  nations  and  civilizations. 

“The  war  itself  made  it  obligatory  that  a Church  which  represents 
Christ  so  adjust  its  plans  and  its  views  as  to  grasp  a situation  literally 
world-wide  in  its  significance  and  scope. 

“It  is  not  only  a time  to  plan  for  and  to  begin  to  do  larger  things  in  a 
constructive  way,  but  it  is  the  time  also  to  confront  the  Church,  as  never 
before,  with  the  idea  of  the  permanence  of  the  foreign  missionary  under- 
taking. In  my  judgment,  this  is  the  most  nearly  permanent  work  that 
is  being  conducted  in  the  world  today.” 





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